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Dušan, Ristić. "Why Does the European Commission Withdraw Proposals? The Incomplete Information Assumption." KSIO: Humanities journal for postgraduates and early career researchers 3, no. 2020 (2021): 98–119. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4926127.
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While I was analyzing the source materials, I came across theoretical conceptualizations of the European Commission as an ‘honest broker’ in the center of many EU networks with access to complete information in regards to the preferences of other parties in the legislative process. Based on that, we would expect all the Commission's proposals to find approval, but this is not the case. Using the argument that when the Commission is faced with a lack of information, due to the uncertainty over the positions of the key legislative parties, they withdraw their proposals, I set out to test what could lead to the legislative proposal’s failure and compel the Commission to use its right to withdraw proposals. I focus on two predictive variables: the rising uncertainty over the key parties’ positions due to the elections and possible transition of power in the Member States, and substantial procedural changes that could likewise lead to increased uncertainty. Additionally, I test the explanatory power of the time-lapse variable. When analyzed, the gathered data shows that the rising uncertainty due to the elections in the Member States has very little predictive power. Results for the substantial procedural changes are inconclusive but offer useful insight. In the end, I found the time-lapse variable to have a strong explanatory power when it comes to failed proposals.
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Dilsaver, Lary M. "Not of National Significance: Failed National Park Proposals in California." California History 85, no. 2 (2008): 4–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25139146.
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Fishkin, James, Thad Kousser, Robert C. Luskin, and Alice Siu. "Deliberative Agenda Setting: Piloting Reform of Direct Democracy in California." Perspectives on Politics 13, no. 4 (2015): 1030–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592715002297.
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Can the people deliberate to set the agenda for direct democracy in large scale states? How might such an institution work? The 2011 California Deliberative Poll piloted a solution to this problem helping to produce proposals that went to the ballot and also to the legislature. The paper reports on how this pilot worked and what it suggests about a possible institution to solve the deliberative agenda setting problem. The legislative proposal passed the legislature but the ballot proposition (Prop 31) failed. However, we show that the proposals actually deliberated on by the people might well have passed if not encumbered by additional elements not deliberated on by the public that drew opposition. The paper ends with an outline of how the process of deliberative agenda setting for the initiative might work, vetting proposals once every two years that could get on the ballot for a greatly reduced cost in signature collections. Adding deliberation to the agenda setting process would allow for a thoughtful and informed public will formation to determine the agenda for direct democracy.
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Korsmo, Fae, and Michael Sfraga. "From Interwar to Cold War: Selling Field Science in the United States, 1920s Through 1950s." Earth Sciences History 22, no. 1 (2003): 55–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.22.1.du8819810600gq16.
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A comparison of why proposed science programs succeed or fail to attract public financial support in the American political arena, this article examines three cases ranging from the 1920s to the 1950s: a unique, multi-disciplinary proposal emerging from the U.S. Navy's 1924 conference on oceanography, U.S. participation in the Second International Polar Year of 1932-1933, and U.S. participation in the International Geophysical Year of 1957-1958. Each proposal emphasized societal benefits and applications of the earth, ocean, or atmospheric sciences. Each began from the bottom up, i.e., people trained and working in the scientific disciplines originated the idea and expressed their support through reports, letters, and participation in committees or conferences. However the proposals experienced different fates. While the promoters of the International Geophysical Year succeeded in gaining relatively substantial federal support, and the backers of the Second International Polar Year gained a modest amount, the U.S. Navy failed to persuade the Coolidge White House to request congressional appropriations for an oceanographic program. The concepts and tools from policy analysis can help to explain why the proposals experienced different outcomes.
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Kelley, Amy Probsdorfer, and John C. Morris. "Keeping the Vision Alive: The Role of Networks in National Memorial Building A Case Study of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial and the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial." Public Voices 11, no. 1 (2016): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/pv.104.
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The process to win approval to build a national memorial on the National Mall inWashington, DC is both long and complex. Many memorials are proposed, but few are chosen to inhabit the increasingly scarce space available on the Mall. Through the use of network analysis we compare and contrast two memorial proposals, with an eye toward understanding why one proposal was successful while the other seems to have failed. We conclude that the success of a specific memorial has less to do with the perceived popularity of the person or event to be memorialized, and more to do with how the sponsors use the network of people and resources available to advocate for a given proposal.
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Huiskes, Rik. "Failed innovation in total hip replacement: Diagnosis and proposals for a cure." Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica 64, no. 6 (1993): 699–716. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17453679308994602.
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Tønnessen, Alf Tomas. "Goldwater, Bush, Ryan and the Failed Attempts by Conservative Republicans to Reform Federal Entitlement Programs." American Studies in Scandinavia 47, no. 2 (2015): 47–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v47i2.5349.
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Social Security and Medicare are federal entitlement programs that represent the current of modern liberalism in the United States. The countercurrent of conservatism has been represented by some Republican politicians who have tried to reform these programs. 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater suggested making Social Security voluntary. In 2005 President George W. Bush made partial privatization of Social Security a key component of his second-term domestic agenda. From 2010 to 2012 Congressman Paul Ryan advocated a reform of Medicare in which the federal government would give seniors vouchers to buy private insurance. Each of these proposals backfired. When conservative Republicans propose detailed alterations to the pillars of some of the Democratic Party’s main legislative accomplishments in the 20th century, they disaffect moderates and independent voters, and they fuel the liberal base of the Democratic Party. The proposals are a liability for Republicans in national elections because Americans fear that entitlement reform will jeopardize the benefits they receive.
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Henna, Shagufta, and Muhammad Awais Sarwar. "An Adaptive Backoff Mechanism for IEEE 802.15.4 Beacon-Enabled Wireless Body Area Networks." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2018 (June 26, 2018): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9782605.
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Carrier sense multiple access mechanism with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) in IEEE 802.15.4-based wireless body area networks (WBANs) may impair the transmission reliability of emergency traffic under high traffic loads, which may result in loss of high valued medical information. Majority of the recent proposals recommend an early retransmission of failed frame while ignoring the history of past failed transmissions. More importantly, these proposals do not consider the number of failed transmissions experienced by each sensor node, thereby affecting the reliability of retransmissions. In this paper, we propose a dynamic retransmission adaptive intelligent MAC (RAI-MAC) scheme. In our proposed scheme retransmission class of each sensor node is decided by the coordinator according to the number of failed transmissions of each node as observed by the coordinator during the last superframe. Based on the retransmission class received from the coordinator, each node adjusts its next backoff value. The proposed scheme increases the probability of successful frame retransmissions without incurring extra overhead. The simulation results prove that the proposed scheme based on its adaptive retransmission mechanism achieves higher average throughput and average end-to-end delay, while not compromising on energy efficiency as compared to the IEEE 802.15.4 and Block Acknowledgment (Block Ack). Moreover, our scheme appears more stable in terms of average throughput, end-to-end delay, and energy efficiency under different values of beacon order (BO) and superframe order (SO).
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Gross, James A., and Daniel V. Yager. "Has Labor Law Failed? An Examination of Congressional Oversight and Legislative Proposals (1968-1990)." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 45, no. 2 (1992): 384. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2524846.
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Durand, G., J. Girodon, and F. Debiais. "Medical management of failed back surgery syndrome in Europe: Evaluation modalities and treatment proposals." Neurochirurgie 61 (March 2015): S57—S65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuchi.2015.01.001.
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Karlström, Sandra. "Ladies First : Why the Corporate Gender Quotas Policy Proposal Failed in Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-352443.
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This essay examines a long-lived issue in Sweden: the case of corporate gender quotas. Its focus is to understand why the policy failed to be adopted as legislation. Previous research has tended to focus on successful cases, while failed cases have been neglected. By paying attention to a failed case, it is possible to provide a more complete understanding of policy change. To examine this, the essay focuses on three aspects: the existence of strategic partnerships, the strength of the supporting movement, and the strength of the countermovement. The empirical material consists of interviews conducted with key actors, proponents and opponents, complemented with different documents. The results demonstrate that proponents failed to make use of an existing strategic partnership and were weak as they failed to state their arguments in universal terms: that this concerns many and have broad consequences. Ultimately, it was not seen as a public problem – and therefore opponents could argue that legislation was needless. Moreover, opponents were strong as they managed to push the issue off the agenda by demonstrating that the gender distribution on boards had improved. Thereby, they claimed that the issue no longer is an issue, and argued that government action was unnecessary.
Books on the topic "Failed proposals"
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Luca, Tiago. Planetary Cinema. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463729628.
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The story is now familiar. In the late 1960s humanity finally saw photographic evidence of the Earth in space for the first time. According to this narrative, the impact of such images in the consolidation of a planetary consciousness is yet to be matched. This book tells a different story. It argues that this narrative has failed to account for the vertiginous global imagination underpinning the media and film culture of the late nineteenth century and beyond. Panoramas, giant globes, world exhibitions, photography and stereography: all promoted and hinged on the idea of a world made whole and newly visible. When it emerged, cinema did not simply contribute to this effervescent globalism so much as become its most significant and enduring manifestation. Planetary Cinema proposes that an exploration of that media culture can help us understand contemporary planetary imaginaries in times of environmental collapse. Engaging with a variety of media, genres and texts, the book sits at the intersection of film/media history and theory/philosophy, and it claims that we need this combined approach and expansive textual focus in order to understand the way we see the world.
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Ceccucci, Piero, ed. Fiorenza mia…! Firenze e dintorni nella poesia portoghese d'oggi. Firenze University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-329-6.
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In the Portuguese imagination Florence is justly considered the cradle of modern western civilisation. Seen and admired from the Renaissance on as the new Athens, for the Portuguese it has always represented not only a model of culture and civilisation to take as inspiration, but also and above all the locus amoenus of spiritual and intellectual harmony and balance, dreamed-of and unattainable, that floods and pervades the soul with a vague, nostalgic sentiment of admiration. Evidence of this, now as in the past, are the serried ranks of poets who for centuries have sung its praises and raised it to the rank of myth. This brief anthology proposes only a few of them, among the most renowned of recent generations. In a truly original way these poets have managed to convey to the hearts and minds of their compatriots their own stunned vision of the city, illustrating emotions that cannot fail to move even the Florentines and, in a broader sense, we Italians as a whole. Thus what is offered in these pages, in fine Italian translation, is this mesh of voices, an intimate and enthralling polyphony of city, poet and reader, unfurling in an evocative melody and proposing the legend of Florence in a new light – possibly more authentic and illuminating.
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Craigg, Oliver. Failed Financial Companies: Analyses and Proposals for More Orderly and Effective Bankruptcies. Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2014.
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Has labor law failed?: An examination of congressional oversight and legislative proposals (1968-1990). National Foundation for the Study of Employment Policy, 1990.
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US GOVERNMENT. Community development proposals and CRA reforms: Hearing before the Subcommittee on General Oversight, Investigations, and the Resolution of Failed Financial ... Congress, first session, September 15, 1993. For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1994.
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Batson, C. Daniel. Pursuing Pride. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190651374.003.0006.
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When we feel empathic concern, do we seek an empathy-specific boost to our esteem? This pride hypothesis was tested against the empathy–altruism hypothesis by looking at (a) mood change after individuals feeling high (vs. low) empathy for a person in need learn that, without their help, the person is no longer in need; (b) mood change after individuals learn that, through no personal fault, their help fails to remove the need; and (c) the association of reward-relevant thoughts with the helping of those feeling high empathy. Results of experiments using each technique failed to support the pride hypothesis; they supported the empathy–altruism hypothesis instead. Based on these and all the previous results, it seemed time to conclude that the motivation produced by empathic concern must be altruistic. But this conclusion was premature. Colleagues proposed two new egoistic explanations, each of which could explain all the apparent support for the altruism hypothesis. Their proposals extended the search.
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Schabas, William A. An International Criminal Court. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833857.003.0011.
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The earliest proposals for an international criminal court emerge during the sessions of the Commission on Responsibilities. The French insist that it will offer a ‘greater stage’, something that is necessary if the former German Emperor is to be prosecuted. On this issue, too, the Americans are totally opposed. The Commission also debates whether or not the Kaiser may be able to invoke immunity as a Head of State. It also considers a notion of guilt by abstention, whereby a leader may be tried for the crimes of subordinates to the extent that he or she failed to intervene to prevent the punishable acts, a doctrine known today as ‘superior responsibility’.
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Prah Ruger, Jennifer. Global Health Justice and Governance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199694631.001.0001.
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Critical and dangerous threats imperil global health. Serious health disparities, hazardous contagions that can circle our globalized planet in hours, a bewildering confusion of health actors and systems all combine in a kaleidoscopically fragmented, incoherent, and unjust global health enterprise. While a growing body of work in global justice and international relations explores moral issues and global governance, very little of it has linked principles of global health justice to governance to create a theory of global health. But the dangers confronting the world make a theoretical framework essential, to enable analysis of the current system and to ground proposals to reform it and align it with moral values. This book presents a global justice theory—provincial globalism (PG)—and links it with the theory of shared health governance (SHG) to offer an alternative to the prevailing modus operandi, which has manifestly failed to serve global health. The PG/SHG framework advances health capability, and specifically the capability to avoid premature death and preventable morbidity, as the proper goal of health systems and policy. This framework sees human flourishing as global society’s end goal and proposes an ethical demand for health equity as the criterion for evaluating global health policy and law. It examines the current actors in global health, assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and proposes assigning responsibilities to actors at all levels according to their functions and capabilities.
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Bevan, Miranda, and David Ormerod. Reforming the Law of Unfitness to Plead in England and Wales. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198788478.003.0004.
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This chapter reviews the legal framework in England and Wales for dealing with defendants in criminal trials who are ‘unfit to plead’, and considers efforts to reform the legal test and procedures. The chapter offers a critique of the present law governing fitness to plead and its failure to reflect modern-day trial processes and psychiatric understanding. It examines law reform proposals made over recent decades and how these have failed to produce significant development in the common law. It focuses in particular on the Law Commission’s recent report and draft Bill in 2016. That report seeks to provide a fair and effective process for those who are unable to participate effectively in their criminal trial and to ensure that defendants’ rights are respected.
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Community development proposals and CRA reforms: Hearing before the Subcommittee on General Oversight, Investigations, and the Resolution of Failed Financial Institutions of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, September 15, 1993. U.S. G.P.O., 1994.
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Dilsaver, Lary M., and Joe Weber. "Failed National Park Proposals in “Sweet Home Alabama”." In The Changing Geography of National Parks and Protected Areas. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74653-6_6.
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Saravanos, Antonios, Stavros Zervoudakis, Dongnanzi Zheng, Neil Stott, Bohdan Hawryluk, and Donatella Delfino. "The Hidden Cost of Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for Research." In HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Papers: Design and User Experience. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90238-4_12.
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AbstractIn this study, we investigate the attentiveness exhibited by participants sourced through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), thereby discovering a significant level of inattentiveness amongst the platform’s top crowd workers (those classified as ‘Master’, with an ‘Approval Rate’ of 98% or more, and a ‘Number of HITS approved’ value of 1,000 or more). A total of 564 individuals from the United States participated in our experiment. They were asked to read a vignette outlining one of four hypothetical technology products and then complete a related survey. Three forms of attention check (logic, honesty, and time) were used to assess attentiveness. Through this experiment we determined that a total of 126 (22.3%) participants failed at least one of the three forms of attention check, with most (94) failing the honesty check – followed by the logic check (31), and the time check (27). Thus, we established that significant levels of inattentiveness exist even among the most elite MTurk workers. The study concludes by reaffirming the need for multiple forms of carefully crafted attention checks, irrespective of whether participant quality is presumed to be high according to MTurk criteria such as ‘Master’, ‘Approval Rate’, and ‘Number of HITS approved’. Furthermore, we propose that researchers adjust their proposals to account for the effort and costs required to address participant inattentiveness.
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Dassori, Beatrice, and Annamaria Donini. "Labour Policies for a Fairer Gig Economy." In Springer Studies in Alternative Economics. Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49147-4_16.
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AbstractThe chapter will consider both the current legislative situation and PLUS proposals in relation to platform labour regulation. While in the first part of the article we will frame the legal status of platform labour around Europe and the ongoing regulatory initiatives, in the second part we will present the PLUS Charter for Platform Workers as a useful starting point for building a fairer gig economy. In conclusion, we will evaluate this proposal in relation to the current debate, highlighting its limits and opportunities for further legislative initiatives.
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Hawwash, Kamel. "4. Can Palestinians Regain the Initiative for Ending the Occupation?" In For Palestine. Open Book Publishers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0345.05.
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In this chapter I describe the work of the Palestine Strategy Study Group (PSSG). I received an invitation to a workshop joining a group of Palestinians from the West Bank and the Diaspora at the Dead Sea, Jordan. The approach came from an International Peace and Security think-tank, the Oxford Research Group (ORG), based in London. The approach seemed interesting because the proposal was to get together a group of Palestinian politicians, academics, businessmen and activists from different political backgrounds and from different regions of the world. Prior to this most initiatives were about ‘dialogue’ between Palestinians and Israelis and have singularly failed to produce a positive outcome. The title of the project was ‘Regaining the Initiative: Exploring Palestinian Strategic Options’.
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Baran, Mariusz. "Towards EU Nature Restoration Law: a Boost for Biodiversity and Climate?" In The European Green Deal and the Impact of Climate Change on the EU Regulatory Framework. Presses universitaires Saint-Louis Bruxelles, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/12keq.
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The Nature Restoration Law, which was proposed on 22 June 2022 by the European Commission, would require European Union Member States to revive forests, wetlands and other sea – and landscapes marred by human development. The proposal tabled includes legally binding restoration targets for various ecosystems across the EU, and offers a huge opportunity to put our degraded nature on the path toward recovery. Support for a strong and ambitious EU Nature Restoration Law from the Member States will be crucial to maintain the overall ambition level of the legislation. Recovering our degraded ecosystems, and above all those with the most potential for capturing and storing carbon, is key to achieving the EU’s climate and biodiversity goals, as well as its international commitments. The proposal adds a new level of legal strength to conservation and restoration efforts across Europe. Previous attempts to increase restoration have failed, both in the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, and the global strategic plan for biodiversity to 2020. The overarching objective of the proposed law is to achieve continuous, long term and sustained recovery of biodiverse land and sea areas, and increase climate mitigation and adaptation through restoration. Nature-based solutions should be a cornerstone of these ongoing efforts. This chapter has identified: (i) the aim of the proposed law, (ii) legally binding targets for Member States, (iii) no ‘one-size-fits-all’ concept and consideration of the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed regulation.
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"Joint Allied proposals for a NOW." In Failed imagination?, edited by Andrew Williams. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9780719095139.00012.
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Bridge, Michael, Louise Gullifer, and Eva Lomnicka. "Criticism and Reform Proposals." In The Law of Security and Title Based Financing 4e. Oxford University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198888895.003.0023.
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Abstract This chapter recounts in detail the measures that have been taken, as well as the measures proposed and not taken, to reform the English law of security over the last fifty years or so. In considering these proposals, particular attention is dedicated to the radical reforms that have been enacted in the United States and Commonwealth jurisdictions. A particular case study concerns the failed attempt to reform the archaic and unsatisfactory law concerning bills of sale. The chapter concludes by pointing to certain aspects of the current law that might call for further attention on the part of the legislature.
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Cadigan, Sean T. "8. Failed Proposals for Fisheries Management and Conservation in Newfoundland, 1855-1880." In Fishing Places, Fishing People, edited by Dianne Newell and Rosemary Ommer. University of Toronto Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442674936-010.
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Tianshi, Yang. "3 A Failed Reconciliation: Proposals to Merge the GMD and the CCP." In Chiang Kai-shek's Critical Years, 1935–50. University of British Columbia Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.59962/9780774870290-007.
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Torry, Malcolm. "How did we get to where we are now?1." In Why we need a Citizen's Basic Income. Policy Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447343158.003.0002.
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This chapter discusses the past and current state of the debate on the Citizen's Basic Income. It begins with the Poor Law of 1601 to the era of means-tested benefits. In particular, it cites William Beveridge's 1942 report which proposed a comprehensive system of National Insurance Benefits and centrally administered National Assistance. It then traces the origins of universal benefits in the UK, from Family Allowance to Child Benefit, and considers other failed proposals to reform the tax and benefits systems, including Tax Credits and attempts at a Citizen's Basic Income. It also explains why proposals such as ‘Universal Credit’ were and have been implemented, but not the proposal for a Citizen's Basic Income. Finally, it describes the National Health Service's (NHS) provision of universal, unconditional and nonwithdrawable healthcare and the global debate over the Citizen's Basic Income, and especially with respect to its feasibility and implementation.
Conference papers on the topic "Failed proposals"
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Wong, Larry P. "Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking of Pump Wear Ring." In CORROSION 2007. NACE International, 2007. https://doi.org/10.5006/c2007-07486.
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Abstract This paper addresses the intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) problem in the 400 series stainless steel wear rings installed on the pump impeller. The results from the study indicate that the engineering design, the metallurgical heat treatment and the raw water chemical content all contribute to IGSCC problem. The tight interference fit between the ring and the impeller caused high residual stress. The heat treatment of the material at the specified temperatures provided the desirable hardness but also creating weak corrosion resistance near the grain boundary areas. High chloride content was found in the reservoir water serviced by the pump. Failure analysis and evaluation were performed on the failed parts. Samples from the impeller wearing rings were sent to laboratory for examinations. Alternatives and proposals resolving the intergranular stress corrosion cracking problem are discussed.
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Kocahan, Taylan, Çağatay Deniz Irmak, and Mertcan Tezcan. "Functional Safety Analysis and Proposal of Fail-Operational Steer-by-Wire System." In 2024 Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications Conference (ASYU). IEEE, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/asyu62119.2024.10757017.
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Welz, Jerome T., and John C. Tverberg. "Corrosion of a Stainless Steel Hot Water System." In CORROSION 1997. NACE International, 1997. https://doi.org/10.5006/c1997-97448.
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Abstract A new large Type 316L Stainless Steel hot potable water system had unexplained massive failures. To find the source of the corrosion failure the following causes were investigated; biological effects, metallurgical variations, chemical influences, process influence, lab testing and field testing. This program consisted of consultants, vendors and an on-site testing program using actual conditions to determine the cause of the corrosion. This paper covers the investigation, summarizes the findings and suspected causes and proposes a mechanism to explain why the stainless steel system failed as it did in such a seemingly benign environment.
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Khan Rana, Ahmad Raza, Graham Brigham, Omar Chaar, and Syed Umair Niaz Bukhari. "Corrosion Scale and Moisture Assessments – an Improvement to On-Stream Inspections for CUI Management." In CONFERENCE 2023. AMPP, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5006/c2023-19167.
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Abstract Corrosion under insulation refers to localized corrosion under thermal insulations which has resulted in failure incidents in the hydrocarbons industry. The non-destructive examination (NDE) inspections for in-service assets (pipes, equipment) via stripping-off insulations are generally limited to a few feet (or meters) as the removal of insulations from larger sections is limited by the safety issues and required heat conservations in the assets. For these reasons, major CUI inspections are generally performed only during outage conditions, as it permits access and inspections for larger areas. On the other hand, the ambient temperatures (due to the out-of-service conditions) which also results in the moisture buildup on the insulated metals (via condensation), change the chemical composition of the corrosion scale and in turn, the kinetics and mode of the corrosion damage. Therefore, traditional NDEs conducted on out-of-service assets do not mimic the periodical in-service CUI damage. Moreover, there have been many events where insulated assets failed while in service as the metal loss rate from the localized CUI damage exceeded the future corrosion allowance. This study proposes an improved methodology for in-service CUI inspections via accounting for the chemical nature of corrosion products, insulation materials, moisture assessments, etc. to better predict the CUI damage.
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Blümel, Lydia, Matthias König, and Markus Ulbricht. "Weak Admissibility for ABA via Abstract Set-Attacks." In 21st International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning {KR-2023}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/kr.2024/17.
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Is an argument acceptable if all potential counter-arguments are unacceptable themselves? In standard models of argumentation, the answer to this question is counter-intuitively not necessarily yes. However, based on the notion of weak admissibility, a family of semantics has been established where these unreasonable attacks do not successfully counter otherwise strong arguments. While in the abstract setting weak admissibility is well-understood, a similar issue arises in the context of structured argumentation formalisms like assumption based argumentation (ABA). It is well known that under standard argumentation semantics, ABA frameworks can be reduced to abstract argumentation frameworks (AFs), however, it turns out that in the case of weak admissibility this approach surprisingly fails. We instead propose to utilize a recently published instantiation technique utilizing collective attacks (SETAFs). We first define weak admissibility for SETAFs and study basic properties; afterwards, we push our proposal to the structured setting. We show that via our approach the characteristic properties of weak admissibility carry over to ABA, and thus establish a basis for further studies of these common scenarios also in ABA and related structured argumentation formalisms.
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Stojanović, Slobodan. "STATE COURTS – SITUATION AND PERSPECTIVES." In Tradicija, krivično i međunarodno krivično pravo. Srpsko udruženje za međunarodno krivično pravo, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/tkmkp24.095s.
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The article is dealing with state owned courts with utmost criti- cism. Contemporary states are predominantly burdened with enor- mous troubles; many are so called „failed states.“ The courts, being the state organs are tied to such states. Therefore, in „failed states“ there must be „failed courts.“ This pertains especially to Serbia and its courts, including Constitutional court. However, the logical consequence is that under existing system it is almost impossible to achieve any improvement with existing po- litical establishment. Yet, there are some proposals, all based on making some distance from State and politics. Truth and justice are too precious for the mankind to remain exclusivity of State due only to the physical power it possesses. The- refore, as much as possible involvement of experts and other people outside State and politics is necessary. However, for the judges the prime must be ethic criterion. Repetitive changes of regulations and some additional education of people who are in fact unacceptable for judiciary, are the wrong way that is leading only to further confusion and many other negative consequences.
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Noé, Reinhold, Helmut Heidrich, and Detlef Hoffmann. "Endless polarization control system with integrated optical Ti:LiNbO3 polarization transformers." In Integrated and Guided Wave Optics. Optica Publishing Group, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/igwo.1988.pdp1.
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In coherent optical transmission systems continuous or endless matching of the states of polarizations (SOPs) can be achieved by automatic control. The first working system was based on mechanical devices1. Earlier proposals for LiNbO3 exhibited a very narrow optical bandwidth2,3, required at least two devices4, or failed to demonstrate automatic operation under worst case conditions5. We present a very robust automatic polarization control system with Ti:LiNbO3 SOP transformers. The intensity losses remain below 0.12 dB even for worst case polarizations, with substantial multi-path reflexions present, and at high tracking speed.
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Kucina, Irena. "Effective Measures Against Harmful Disinformation in the EU in Digital Communication." In The 8th International Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia. University of Latvia Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22364/iscflul.8.2.11.
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Digitalisation has opened new technological horizons before society in terms of creating a better physical world and personal life. Impact of technologies on medicine, reduction of environmental pollution, resource savings and other areas is obvious. Digital technologies kept Latvian parliament (Saeima), government, public institutions, schools and business open or working remotely during pandemic to ensure running of the state, economy and society under restrictions and preventing close contact. Pandemic would have made our lives significantly harder 30 years ago. Digital revolution is on the rise. Global data output is doubling every year. Just picture hundreds of thousands of Google searches and Facebook entries we generate every minute. They convey valuable information about what we think and experience. It has also become apparent that technological euphoria has clouded our vision and we have failed to spot the threats to democracy, human rights and freedoms. Digitalisation come with great opportunities, but it also poses enormous risks, especially for democracy and rule of law. On 15 December 2020, European Commission announced two new legislative proposals (proposals for regulation) – Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act . Their main objective is to make internet safer for people who use it, in particular, for buying goods and services, and for the first time ever these regulations also contain provisions regarding reduction of threats to democracy and rule of law emanating from digital tools. This paper analyses two significant legal risks associated with digitalisation that need to be mentioned: Big Data threats to fundamental human rights such as privacy (I) and threats to freedom of speech on social media (II), which are then evaluated from the perspective of interconnected legislative proposals announced by the Commission on 15 December 2020 (Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act), followed by an assessment of how well they address (or not) the aforementioned risks (III). In conclusion, paper offers several proposals on how Latvia should address these issues during consultation process (IV).
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Liessem, Andreas, and Marion Erdelen-Peppler. "A Critical View on the Significance of HAZ Toughness Testing." In 2004 International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2004-0315.
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Within the heat affected zone (HAZ) along the weld seam of LSAW linepipes discrete microstructural regions of reduced toughness can not be avoided and are commonly designated with the term Local Brittle Zones. The nature of these LBZ has been intensively investigated and the gathered knowledge is exploited in today’s steel technology, plate processing and pipe manufacturing. The HAZ toughness has been improved in general by reducing MA constituents and by austenite grain refinement. Nevertheless local areas of low toughness within the CGHAZ can not be avoided completely. They are statistically distributed in every pipe. Furthermore it seems to be widely accepted that the structural reliability of LSAW linepipe produced and inspected with state-of-the-art technology is not influenced as these areas of low toughness have a limited size and distribution. This has been demonstrated by numerous investigations including small scale (CVN, CTOD), wide plate and burst tests. The essence of these investigations is that the failure behaviour of linepipe containing part wall defects in the HAZ is toughness independent. So far researcher’s world is clear and in good shape. Nevertheless many linepipe specifications tend to stipulate stringent test requirements with regard to acceptance criteria for the HAZ. In the occurrences of test failures a re-test procedure for test lot acceptance is carried out. As a matter of fact the LBZ are present along the weld seam over limited areas in each pipe. Therefore such a re-test procedure is regarded to be inappropriate in terms of quality inspection as it randomly sorts out pipes just by the statistical chance. With regard to HAZ toughness the pipes failed by this test do not differ from those pipes accepted and released for dispatch. As a final conclusion it can be stated that the existing test procedures for the HAZ toughness testing of the main standards and specifications do not reflect the current developments with regard to improved HAZ toughness achieved by the development of optimised steel composition and with regard to the enhanced defect detection probability along with modern NDT inspection methods. An amendment of the current test procedures in this direction is proposed. Therefore proposals are made as start for a common discussion.
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Clua Uceda, Álvaro. "Slussen 1935-2015: diagnóstico de una ruina moderna." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Facultad de Arquitectura. Universidad de la República, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.6160.
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El proyecto del Slussen en Estocolmo es hoy una ruina del movimiento moderno. Aquella visión optimista y eterna de la arquitectura funcionalista se presenta incierta y desproporcionada tras menos de un siglo de pervivencia. Paredes desconchadas, metales oxidados por el salitre, azulejos rotos, tiendas en decadencia y paseantes en sombra muestran un espacio hoy muy distinto de aquella “elegancia” que pregonara en 1935 el periódico Svenska Dagbladet ante el proyecto de Tage William-Olsson. ¿Cuáles son las causas de la decadencia de ese intersticio urbano? ¿Es en origen un proyecto erróneo, una historia malograda? Las respuestas se argumentan desde un recorrido intencionado por algunos momentos clave de su transformación: en el rastro de esbozos nunca realizados, en las vacilaciones del proyecto original, en las instantáneas de su inauguración, en sus detalles de acabados y comercio o finalmente en las imágenes presentadas al concurso internacional de 2008. Quizás puedan argumentarse ahí las futuras intervenciones que se ciernen sobre el Slussen moribundo: ¿mirada nostálgica, oportunismo, tabula rasa? The Slussen project in Stockholm is today a ruin of the modern movement. After less than a century of life, the place appears in an uncertain and disproportionate way, far from the optimistic and eternal vision of functionalist architecture. Flaking walls, oxidized metals, broken tiles, decadent shops and pedestrians lost in the shadow of the infrastructure show a very different space of that "elegant" prototype declared by the Svenska Dagbladet in 1935 on the built project of Tage William-Olsson. Which are the reasons for the decadence of this urban interstice? Is the original Slussen designed by Tage William-Olsson a wrong project, a failed story? In this article, answers are argued following an intentional trip through some key episodes of its existence: through the traces of sketches ever executed and the variations of the original project, through some images of its inauguration and the subtle details in the bright shopping stores and, finally, through the reading of the proposals presented to the recent international competition in 2008. Perhaps the future transformation of the dying Slussen could learn some arguments from the experience of its own past. ¿Nostalgic view, opportunism, tabula rasa?
Reports on the topic "Failed proposals"
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Branco-Pereira, Alexandre, and Gabriela Carvalho Teixeira. Fellows Brief: Epidemic/Pandemic Preparedness in Brazil Amongst Transnational Migrants. Institute of Development Studies, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2024.046.
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This brief aims to provide an analysis of the Brazilian response to the COVID-19 pandemic regarding transnational migrants and to look forward on how to build epi/pandemic preparedness in a way that is considerate of migrants’ rights, cultures and political demands. Building on Leach et al., the objective of this brief is ‘to rethink preparedness more fundamentally as a dynamic social, cultural and political process’ and to shed light on how the country’s response to the pandemic failed to be inclusive. This brief details key policy and operational considerations for the Brazilian Unified Healthcare System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS) policymakers, health managers and public health authorities. It draws on ethnographic research from the main author’s doctoral research on the impact of the COVID-19 on racialised migrant and refugee communities in Brazil, on other academic and grey literature on the topic, and on guidelines and proposals for SUS produced in consultation processes organised by civil society.
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Gallagher, Clara. Earth Observation Technologies for Improved Access to Climate Finance: The Role of Data and Information. Commonwealth Secretariat, 2021. https://doi.org/10.14217/comsec.344.
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Access to climate finance is a challenge for many developing countries, including for small island developing states. Projects remain in the pipeline as they fail to provide sufficient justification for the climate rationale to receive funding. Resources and capacity to provide the required evidence of that rationale is often constrained in developing countries, resulting in fewer bankable climate finance proposals being successful. This discussion paper proposes the use of satellite remote sensing (SRS) and earth observation (EO) data, information and applications as a means to manage and address this problem and enhance the development of robust climate finance proposals and enable better access to climate finance streams.
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Bando, Rosangela. The Role of Agents and the Nature of Limitations in the Performance of Development Projects. Inter-American Development Bank, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0005545.
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Development practitioners aspire to improve lives, but achieving results is challenging. What prevents operations from achieving their objectives? Answering this question is critical to promote success. This Discussion Paper proposes to analyze operations first to identify if they faced limitations to effectiveness, then to identify which key stakeholders faced those limitations, and finally, whether such limitations were exogenous. Such an approach may strengthen accountability and learning. An analysis of 62 project completion reports evaluated in 2022 by the Inter-American Development Bank shows that success was contingent upon critical agents performance and the influence of exogenous factors. Four in 10 operations that failed had agents other than the executing agency face challenges. The same share of operations had agents face limitations derived from the project environment or third-party inputs beyond their control. Despite limitations, the proposed framework may provide insights for future work that promotes effectiveness.
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Borgwardt, Stefan, Ismail Ilkan Ceylan, and Thomas Lukasiewicz. Ontology-Mediated Query Answering over Log-Linear Probabilistic Data. Technische Universität Dresden, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.25368/2023.221.
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Large-scale knowledge bases are at the heart of modern information systems. Their knowledge is inherently uncertain, and hence they are often materialized as probabilistic databases. However, probabilistic database management systems typically lack the capability to incorporate implicit background knowledge and, consequently, fail to capture some intuitive query answers. Ontology-mediated query answering is a popular paradigm for encoding commonsense knowledge, which can provide more complete answers to user queries. We propose a new data model that integrates the paradigm of ontology-mediated query answering with probabilistic databases, employing a log-linear probability model. We compare our approach to existing proposals, and provide supporting computational results.
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Röders, Jonathan. Research Brief: Moral Injury and Repair Among Formerly Armed Actors. Trust After Betrayal, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.59498/38489.
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This research brief focuses on moral injury (MI) among formerly armed actors (FAAs), the cognitive and emotional response that may occur in a person who has witnessed, perpetrated, or failed to prevent acts that go against their moral or ethical beliefs. Unlike post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), MI is not widely recognised as a distinct clinical condition, yet it poses significant obstacles to the mental well-being and successful (re)integration of FAAs. The brief explores how morally injurious events challenge healthy self-perceptions and clash with societal expectations, leading to a severe cognitive dissonance in affected FAAs. It examines the impact of MI on military veterans and non-state armed actors, and highlights its potential psychological consequences such as social withdrawal, substance abuse, depression and violent behaviour. The research brief argues that MI deserves attention in psychosocial counseling within (re)integration programs for FAAs. It thus proposes a framework for integrating moral repair into existing FAA mental health treatment programmes, recognising the importance of addressing chronic and intrusive feelings of shame, guilt, and remorse resulting from MI.
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Flandreau, Marc. Pari Passu Lost and Found: The Origins of Sovereign Bankruptcy 1798-1873. Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36687/inetwp186.
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Verdicts returned by modern courts of justice in the context of sovereign debt lawsuits have upheld a ratable (proportional) interpretation of so-called “pari passu” clauses in debt contracts which, literally, promise creditors they will be dealt with equitably. Such verdicts have given individual creditors the right to interfere with payments to others, in situation where the sovereign had failed to make proportional payments. Contract originalists argue that this interpretation of pari passu clauses has no historical foundation. Historically, they claim, pari passu clauses never granted individual creditors a unilateral right to block payments to other bondholders assenting to a government debt restructuring proposal. This article shows this claim is incorrect. Drawing on novel archival research, it argues that pari passu clauses find one potent historical origin in the operation of a now forgotten sovereign bankruptcy tribunal, the London stock exchange. Under the law of the stock exchange, departure from ratable payments did create a unilateral right for individual creditors to interfere with sovereign debt discharges. In fact, ratable distributions provided the touchstone for the stock exchange sanctioned sovereign debt discharge system. What is more, sophisticated contract drafters availed themselves of the logic. The result was a weaponization of pari passu clauses, and their inscription into sovereign debt covenants in the 19th century. The article concludes that the modern debate on the role of clauses in sovereign debt contracts cannot be held without thorough reconsideration of the history of sovereign bankruptcy.
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Barash, Itamar, and Robert E. Rhoads. Translational Mechanisms that Govern Milk Protein Levels and Composition. United States Department of Agriculture, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2004.7586474.bard.
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Original objectives: The long term objective of the project is to achieve higher content of protein in the milk of ruminants by modulating the translational machinery in the mammary gland. The first specific aim of the BARD proposal was to characterize responsiveness of various experimental systems to combination of lactogenic hormones and amino acids with particular emphasis on discrimination between the control of total protein synthesis and milk protein synthesis. Based on the results, we planned to proceed by characterizing the stage of protein synthesis in which the stimulation by lactogenic hormones and amino acid occur and finally we proposed to identify which components of the translation machinery are modified. Background to the topic: Milk protein is the most valuable component in milk, both for direct human consumption and for manufacturing cheese and other protein-based products. Attempts to augment protein content by the traditional methods of genetic selection and improved nutritional regimes have failed. The proposal was based on recent results suggesting that the limiting factor for augmenting protein synthesis in the bovine mammary gland is the efficiency of converting amino acids to milk proteins. Major conclusions, solutions, achievements: Insulin and prolactin synergistically stimulate â-casein mRNA translation by cytoplasmatic polyadenylation. The interaction between insulin and prolactin was demonstrated two decades ago as crucial for milk-protein synthesis, but the molecular mechanisms involved were not elucidated. We found in differentiated CID 9 mouse mammary epithelial cells line that insulin and prolactin synergistically increases the rate of milk protein mRNA translation. We focused on â-casein, the major milk protein, and found that the increase in â-casein mRNA translation was reflected in a shift to larger polysomes, indicating an effect on translational initiation. Inhibitors of the PI3K, mTOR, and MAPK pathways blocked insulin-stimulated total protein and â-casein synthesis but not the synergistic stimulation. Conversely, cordycepin, a polyadenylation inhibitor, abolished synergistic stimulation of protein synthesis without affecting insulin-stimulated translation. The poly(A) tract of â-casein mRNA progressively increased over 30 min of treatment with insulin plus prolactin. The 3’-untranslated region of â-casein mRNA was found to contain a cytoplasmic polyadenylation element (CPE), and in reporter constructs, this was sufficient for the translational enhancement and mRNA-specific polyadenylation. Furthermore, insulin and prolactin stimulated phosphorylation of cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein (CPEB) but did not increase cytoplasmic polyadenylation.
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De Serres, Sophie, and Alain Marchand. Travail et IA : état de la question. IRSST, 2025. https://doi.org/10.70010/dxrk4549.
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L’évolution technologique rapide de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) et son utilisation de plus en plus importante dans les organisations et entreprises entraînent des transformations appréciables des milieux de travail. Une revue récente et non exhaustive de la littérature scientifique et grise permet de faire état des connaissances actuelles des répercussions de l’IA sur la santé et la sécurité du travail (SST), en soulignant à la fois les effets positifs observés chez les travailleuses et travailleurs, et les effets négatifs, principalement psychosociaux. Des situations d’utilisation de l’IA en amont, autrement qu’en temps réel (analyse prédictive, recrutement, formation ou recherche), sont également présentées ainsi que des enjeux cruciaux associés à l’intégration de l’IA en milieu de travail, comme la confidentialité des données, les biais algorithmiques et l'absence de normes. Pour finir, des pistes de recherche sont proposées afin d’optimiser l'utilisation de l'IA au bénéfice de la SST.
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Scarpini, Celeste, Oyebola Okunogbe, and Fabrizio Santoro. Les promesses et les limites des technologies de l’information dans la mobilisation fiscale. Institute of Development Studies, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ictd.2023.019.
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Alors que les technologies numériques continuent de gagner du terrain en Afrique et dans les pays à faible revenu, de plus en plus d’administrations fiscales les adoptent pour améliorer leurs fonctions essentielles et collecter des recettes de manière plus efficace. Ce document fait le point sur la littérature récente sur l’utilisation de la technologie dans l’administration fiscale. La technologie peut améliorer le recouvrement des impôts dans trois domaines, notamment l’identification de l’assiette fiscale, le contrôle de la conformité et la facilitation de la conformité. Cependant, même la technologie la plus conviviale ne peut fonctionner sans une infrastructure de base et une connexion internet stable. Les avantages potentiels des nouvelles technologies sont en outre entravés par la résistance des contribuables et des percepteurs, par un environnement réglementaire peu favorable et par l’absence de stratégie d’adoption par les institutions. Nous avons conclu ce document en proposant des réformes visant à garantir que les investissements dans les nouvelles technologies améliorent l’efficacité et la perception des recettes. Résumé du document de travail 135 par Oyebola Okunogbe et Fabrizio Santoro.
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Knowles, Donald, and Monica Leszkowicz Mazuz. Transfected Babesia bovis expressing the anti-tick Bm86 antigen as a vaccine to limit tick infestation and protect against virulent challenge. United States Department of Agriculture, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2014.7598160.bard.
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Bovine babesiosis, caused by the apicomplexan parasites Babesiabovisand B. bigemina, is a major tick borne disease of cattle with significant economic importance globally. The vectors of Babesia parasites are R. (Boophilus) annulatusand R. microplus. In Israel these parasites are transmitted manly by R. annulatus. The main goal of the proposal was developing and testing a novel B. bovisvaccine based on stably transfected attenuated B. bovisexpressing the anti-tick Bm86 antigen. This required generating a transfected- attenuated B. bovisparasite containing a bidirectional promoter expressing both, the gfp- bsd selectable marker and the tick vaccine antigen Bm86. The vaccine was tested for its ability to elicit protective immune responses against T. annulatusticks. Efficient control of babesiosis is based on a complex scheme of integrated management, including preventive immunization, anti-babesial chemotherapy and control of tick populations. Live vaccines based on attenuated parasites are the most effective measure to control babesiosis, and are currently used in several countries, including Israel. Live attenuated parasites lead to a chronic infection and development of strong and long term immunity in vaccinated cattle. Still, live vaccines have several limitations, including the difficulty to distinguish among vaccinated and naturally infected cattle and potential for sporadic outbreaks in vaccinated animals. Tick limitation is essential to control babesiosis but the main measure to reduce tick infestation is traditionally approached using acaricides, which is limited by environmental concerns and the development of resistance by the ticks. Alternative tick-control measures including the use of anti-tick vaccines are emerging, and at least partial protective immunity has been achieved against tick vectors by vaccination with recombinant protective tick antigens (ie: Bm86). In addition, the Babesia vaccine development toolbox has been recently expanded with the development of transfection technology in Babesia parasites. In this approved proposal we successfully developed a Babesia live attenuated transfected vaccine, which is able to express a B. bovisMSA-1 signal-Bm86 chimera and eGFP genes under the control of the B. bovisef- 1 and actin promoters respectively. Genetic analysis demonstrated specific stable integration of the transfected genes in the expected ef-1 locus, and immunofluorescence analysis confirmed expression of Bm86 in the surface of transfected parasites. When applied to splenectomized calves, the transfected parasites were able to cause persistent B. bovisinfection with production of antibodies reactive with Bm86 for at least six months. In addition, partial protection against ticks was also observed upon challenging the vaccinated animals with R. annulatuslarvae. However, when used on intact calves, the vaccine failed to elicit detectable immune responses against Bm86, and we are still in the process of interpreting the data and make necessary changes in our experimental approaches. Overall, the results obtained here represent a step forward towards the development of integrated vaccines against both ticks and tick –borne pathogens, using the Babesia attenuated parasites as a platform to the delivery of exogenous protective antigens